guilty - Story 59363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was tucked between a flyer for pizza and a bill. It felt innocuous enough, but as she held it, a strange unease settled in her chest. She couldn't shake it.

She’d planned to go for a run, but she found herself back in the apartment, re-reading the card’s message again and again. Her breath hitched. The words, so kind, so thoughtful, made the pit in her stomach grow.

She avoided looking at her phone. The unanswered calls, the unread texts...they mocked her. A sudden desire to vanish overcame her, to leave everything behind.

Emotion: guilty

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.62 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion guilty. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 guilty stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the guilty emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the guilty vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.492
`L`	0.398
`탓`	0.354
`been`	0.323
`ashamed`	0.319

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.400
`(!)`	-0.279
`la`	-0.276
`😍`	-0.274
`"!`	-0.264